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The Unreconstructed M - "That flexibility does also bring with it a few problems, though." | |||
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? - "Those surveyed expect that the first HLMI will be developed by a large corporate, academic, or military organization, rather than a small, garden shed scientist. . ." | |||
Sales Pitch - "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. . .That sucks." | |||
Clans Of The Alphane Moon - "I fear the consequences. I own a lot of guns." | |||
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"That rather unappealing trait. . ." |
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Time Out Of Joint - "Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production. They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead." | |||
Ubik - "Older parts of the animal are quite simply broken down, and are then partially recycled when new and healthy parts grow out from the adult bodies." | |||
Dr. Futurity - "At this point, the MagMite is really just a small magnet, not much of a robot at all. But that’ll change soon when Dr. Nelson enables it with drug delivery capabilities." | |||
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? - "An artificial version of the connections that allow electrical impulses to pass between neurons in our brains, the circuit could someday be one component of a synthetic brain." | |||
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"She'll have your bones. Just so you know." |
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Faith Of Our Fathers - "One can only wonder what would be next on Deng’s agenda after his release from prison. Could it be a fake war?" | |
James P. Crow - "While it’s still only a concept piece, there’s little doubt that robots like FRIDA could replace many of the remaining human workers in factories." | |
Second Variety - "The military is pretty conservative, old school. . .they always want to have a man in the loop." | |
Radio Free Albemuth - "So scientists at the University of Leicester in England developed a new approach: looking for radio waves emitted when ultraviolet flares light up the atmospheres of planets like Saturn and Jupiter." | |
Sales Pitch - "Just offering up a generic discount based on location isn’t going to be enough." | |||
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? - "The good news is that the fakes are up to snuff." | |||
The Penultimate Truth - "Their sensor and camera suites give them better visibility than human pilots have, reducing the risk of collateral damage." | |||
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James P. Crow - "Another thing the robot can do is identify the strike zone." | |||
A Scanner Darkly - "Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device." | |||
Radio Free Albemuth - "One way to conceive of the Fourth Amendment is as an off-and-on switch." | |||
VALIS - "I don't agree with myself about a lot of stuff that used to make sense to me, but doesn't from my current perspective." | |||
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We Can Build You - "In the 1950s, robots were predicted to be the wave of the future. Well, the future is here." | |||
Second Variety - "If you didn’t pay close attention…well, good luck figuring out which parts of this are real, and which are robot." | |||
The Hood Maker - "The answer: Design an algorithm that reads people’s minds." | |||
Pay For The Printer - "3D printing will for sure be a new mode of manufacturing." | |||
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "They learn more quickly but they don't have a good intuitive or introspective sense about why." | |||
Second Variety - "It is essential that, before unmanned systems become ubiquitous (if it is not already too late) that we consider this issue and ensure that, by removing some of the horror, or at least keeping it at a distance. . .we do not risk losing our controlling humanity and make war more likely." | |||
The Unreconstructed M - "Okay, so a three foot robotic insect that can carry nearly three times its weight does sound kind of creepy in retrospect, but HECTOR really does have some smooth moves." | |||
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Second Variety - "What we are involved in now is proving the concept, making sure the different elements will work. If they do, it could have important implications." | ||||
Sales Pitch - "Billboards are so damn stoic—it's nice to come across one that has real feelings." AND "Sosa says he hears the name of the movie every day in relation to the project, but he doesn’t think that Immersive Labs’ smart billboard is similarly creepy." | ||||
A Scanner Darkly - "Where do those tens of millions of faces come from -- Santa's naughty and nice list?" | ||||
James P. Crow - "As more and more hospitals are realizing, automating pharmacies is consistent with the goals of saving lives and money." | ||||
The Penultimate Truth - "When the X-47B joins the ranks of U.S. military combat operations it will be joining a mechanized army of 7,000+ UAVs and 2,000+ ground robots already on the battlefield." | ||||
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